Kindle Paperwhite for Dummies (48 page)

A Kindle Paperwhite can help decrease clutter and save space.
Face it, books take up a lot of room in your home. You can store an entire library (1,100 e-books) in a device that you can hold in your hand. Plus, you can store thousands more books in the Cloud.

A Kindle Paperwhite library can never be destroyed in a fire or flood.
Although a Kindle Paperwhite might break or become damaged, your Kindle Paperwhite library, stored in the Cloud at your Amazon account, will always be available.

You can save money on e-book purchases.
A Kindle Paperwhite requires an initial investment, but e-books are generally less expensive than their printed counterparts. In addition, you can find many sources of free e-books as well as frequent free e-book promotions.

You can change the font size, making reading easier.
After you discover the convenience of enlarging or reducing the font to accommodate your eyes or the lighting conditions, you’ll realize the inconvenience of reading very small print. Many people with vision problems have been able to regain their joy of reading by using the Kindle Paperwhite with enlarged fonts.

You can make annotations without harming the e-book.
The Kindle Paperwhite allows you to make notes, highlight passages, and annotate important sections, all without leaving permanent marks in the book. This is good for the e-book and good for other readers, who may be interested in the content but not in your notes.

Improve your vocabulary by using the dictionary to look up unfamiliar words.
When you were learning to read, you might have looked up words you didn’t know in the dictionary. But as you got older, you might have left that habit behind. The Kindle Paperwhite makes looking up unfamiliar words easy. Instead of trying to puzzle out what
unctuous
means, look it up! (By the way,
unctuous
means smooth and greasy in texture or appearance.)

Keep your reading list private.
You might not want others to know that you’re reading
The Bald Duke’s Secret Mistress.
Everyone has their guilty pleasures — is it really anybody else’s business that you like to read bodice rippers or trashy celebrity biographies?